Green Adams

Green Adams
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Kentucky's 6th district
In office
March 4, 1859  March 3, 1861
Preceded byJohn Milton Elliott
Succeeded byGeorge W. Dunlap
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Kentucky's 6th district
In office
March 4, 1847  March 3, 1849
Preceded byJohn Preston Martin
Succeeded byDaniel Breck
Personal details
Born(1812-08-20)August 20, 1812
Barbourville, Kentucky, U.S.
DiedJanuary 18, 1884(1884-01-18) (aged 71)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Resting placeWest Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Political partyOpposition Party
Other political
affiliations
Whig
RelationsGeorge Madison Adams (nephew)
ProfessionPolitician, lawyer

Green Adams (August 20, 1812 – January 18, 1884) was an American politician who served as a Whig member of the United States House of Representatives for Kentucky from 1847 to 1849 and as an Opposition Party member from 1859 to 1861. He was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1839, a judge in the Kentucky Circuit Court from 1851 to 1856, and the sixth auditor of the United States Treasury Department from 1861 to 1864